Wikia Search Alpha Release Now Ready For The Open Source Community
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Monday, January 7th, 2008 | 676 ViewsJimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia has recently released a new open source project. The new project is supposed to be a search engine that an open source community builds, similar to Wikipedia. The open source tool used for the platform is Nutch and the index of web pages that revolve around Wikia currently was put together by Grub, [...]
Wikia Opens Four New Communities: Restaurants, Foodie, Fitness, and Mortgages
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Friday, April 13th, 2007 | 145 Views
Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley’s Wikia project announced yesterday that the company is opening four new open source projects. The four new open source online magazines focus on Restaurants.wikia, Foodie.wikia, Fitness.wikia, and Mortgages.wikia.
“As with our other open-source magazine sites, we hope that the new sites launched today continue to give people the opportunity to create [...]
Searchme Labs Launches Wikiseek Community Edition
1 COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Saturday, March 10th, 2007 | 118 ViewsYesterday, all of the Wikiseek Beta Testers received an e-mail from John Holland, Chief Marketing Officer of Searchme, Inc. that Wikiseek: Community Edition was launched. Wikiseek was launched around January. The company that created Wikiseek is called SearchMe and is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company had raised $5 million in funding for [...]
Schtuff.com Now Sticks To The Roof of PBwiki’s Mouth
ADD A COMMENT | Amit Chowdhry | Friday, March 2nd, 2007 | 262 ViewsPBwiki, the website that makes creating wikis simple and password-protection possible also has announced the acquisition of Schtuff, another easy-creation wiki website. PBwiki is a fairly young start-up, created in June 2005 and within 48 hours of launch, 1000 new wikis were made.
Schtuff.com was created by JanRain, a team of 11 [...]
